WHEN SPIES AT Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, aren’t tracking people’s porn usage, or hacking telecoms, they like to kick back on the holidays and have some fun with cryptology. On Christmas Day, The Intercept posted the British eavesdropping agency’s Kryptos Kristmas Kwiz (which would create an unfortunate acronym for American readers). Today, on New Year’s, we are posting the answers.

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